Santa Claus Came to Town and He Did It in Style!
I wandered back up to my favorite city on the North Shore for a few days last week in search of perhaps a few things that might put me in the Christmas spirit being that the holidays are fast-approaching once again and mostly I've been doing my best Ebeneezer Scrooge impression. One of the things I found was a very interesting combination that certainly put a big smile on my face and helped me to regain some of the magic of Christmas that we sometimes lose as adults. What might that be you ask? Well let's see ... what do you get when you combine the historic Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts ... ... with an Engine Company from the City of Salem Fire Department ... ... along with Ladder 21, the tower truck from the nearby Swampscott Fire Department ... ... and a very enthusiastic crowd? If you were in Salem this past Friday night (December 2nd) like I was, then you got the arrival of this guy and I'm just enough of a kid to still get excited wh...